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U. of I. Library online users can access booksellers to buy books
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has added a new service. The largest public university collection in the world, holding nearly 24 million items, now offers its users a “Buy a Book Service.” Linked to the library’s Web site, the book-purchase service gives users “easy and quick access to […]
Preserving home movies as history is subject of U. of I., national events
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – If getting people to watch your home movies is like herding cats, maybe the problem isn’t your content, but rather, the physical quality of your movies. If that’s the case, help is on the way during an upcoming event at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The first “Home Movie Day” Aug. […]
Charles Yerkes, telescope benefactor, a stellar scoundrel, author says
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Robber barons apparently didn’t come by their titles easily. Just how hard they had to work – on both sides of the law – to hold on to their empires is revealed in a new book about one particularly ingenious and controversial tycoon. Even by Chicago’s standards at the turn of the […]
Research reinforces findings that Chinese exercises benefit older adults
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – New work by researchers at the University of Illinois lends strength to previous research documenting the health benefits of Qigong and Taiji among older adults who practice these ancient Chinese martial-arts forms. Qigong (chee-kung) and Taiji (tye-chee) – or Tai Chi, as it is more commonly known in the U.S. – combine […]
Advertising and its methods put ‘on trial’ in the 1930s, author says
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – In the current world of product placement, cross-promotion, pop-up ads, and ad-driven politics, it’s hard to imagine there was ever a time when advertising as an institution was severely challenged. We’ve come to see advertising as a given, “as part of who we are,” says Inger Stole, a professor in the Institute […]
Grant will improve access to U. of I. Rare Book and Manuscript Library
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A top U.S. rare book and manuscript library has begun taking the embarrassment out of its embarrassment of riches by making all of its collection accessible. Only two-thirds of the materials in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been cataloged and are accessible, meaning […]
Master gardeners help others learn to grow
Shelley Siuts said she always has loved gardening, but for some unknown reason all her houseplants seemed to wither away. At the urging of some friends, Siuts joined the UI Master Gardeners program. Siuts, an information technology specialist in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, began the online training course in January and soon […]
U. of I. scholar awarded research grant by South Korean film council
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Frances Gateward, a professor in the African American Studies and Research Program, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, and the Unit for Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded an overseas research grant from the Korean Film Council in Seoul, South Korea. Her winning project […]
Host families sought for Japanese students studying this summer at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Total immersion in American English is the goal one Illinois summer program sets for its visiting Japanese college students. But immersion involves more than classroom instruction, says Stan Van Horn, a lecturer in the Intensive English Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who is coordinating this year’s IEI summer language […]
Chinese librarians coming to U. of I. to study ‘library futures’
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – There still are many realms where communications between the United States and China are strained or non-existent, but the realm that includes libraries, librarians and librarianship is not among them. In fact, the ties are only strengthening between one U.S. university, including its library school, and several Chinese academic libraries. For the […]
Web-cast lecture series to focus on museum studies
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Emerging developments in elite museum studies are now only a click away for the faculty, staff and students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The work and world of the museum, as seen through the lens of one expert at a time, is now available to anyone at Illinois, by means […]
New contrast agents may be on horizon for better medical imaging
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Research by scientists based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign may lead to the development of a new breed of “multimodal” contrast agents that could work within a host of medical imaging platforms – from ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) to magnetic resonance imaging and molecular imaging. Use of these new […]